Financial Services & FinTech

Our experts cover the full spectrum of latest financial technologies and trends.

While the global banking industry has achieved a modicum of stability over the past several years, earning a record $1 trillion in 2014 and recording a 9.5% return on equity for the last consecutive year, banks now face rising competitive threats on all sides as new technology companies and others seek to poach their customers.

How we help clients

Foresight 360

The ForeSight360 (F360) is a future exploration programme, based on a 20-year future awareness outlook with both national and international stakeholders from various transactional and contextual influencing industries.

Our experts

Client benefits

Better Investment Planning. By providing scenario's with probabilities, threats and opportunities, a company can better provision investment means.

Optimized P&L. A better understanding of where your organisation is heading to, with clear roadmap specifications, allows for more accurate budget planning.

Validated Decision Making. Accurate relevant market insights and expert feedback, allows for making educated decisions, rather then trying endless itterations in the wild.

Retain relevance. With deep understanding its competitive landscapes and upcoming disruptions, a company can prepare itself properly and tailor its offer to what really matters.

Improved Operational Processes. Through a better general understanding of objectives, roadmap milestones and KPI's, a company can optimize its business processes.

Favourable ROI. A company achieves beneficial return-on-investments, by working with actionable insights from industry experts, following a properly defined and supported roadmap.

No disruption on current ongoing activities. While workshops will typically require some time from senior stakeholders, board- or executive commitee, or officials, it generally does not disrupt ongoing core activities. Unless chosen to.

Increased Lead Generation. By better understanding markets, customers, and industry trends, and by adopting true customer-centric operations, a company will see increased lead generation.

Companies tend to see the world from within own borders, assuming own strengths to be sufficient to win enough market. We wanted to mitigate risk on all angles, and have been working with TomorrowLab over the years to get us actionable insights on how to stay on top of our game.

Lode Peeters, CEO, Tobania

Past successes do not offer any guarantee for future ones. For the past few years, we've been relying on TomorrowLab to guide us to remain most relevant in the business service market...and we still are.

Geert Vanherwegen, Director HR Solutions, Randstad

If you are to evolve into becoming a smart city, you need a clear vision that reflects your own identity. The city of Aalter has find in TomorrowLab a neutral catalyst who help shape such vision, who can guide through uncertain times, giving actionable insights and conceptual assistance in building pilot projects.

Pieter De Crem — Secretary of State for Foreign Trade — Mayor, City of Aalter

Our beloved city of Genk cares deeply about keeping retail and other businesses accessible to our people. We believe that physical stores will continue to shape the city, and working with TomorrowLab on building future scenario's has allowed us to make the right choices and investments.

Wim Dries, Mayor, City of Genk

How do we, as public transportation company, prepare ourselves for 2035? This was our assignment for TomorrowLab, beginning 2015. What came next was a unique ‘outside-in’ strategy programme which allowed for defining our vision for the future.

Roger Kesteloot, CEO, De Lijn

The markets change rapidly. For Cargill, this meant our time-to-market had to improve significantly, as had our market insights. And so we did, together with TomorrowLab.

Nils Sips, R&D Director, Cargill

Technology must offer added value, and that value is different for each player. What does the consumer want? What is the monitizing model? Is technology the only driver? TomorrowLab has been instrumental in getting us answers to these questions.

Alfons Goos, Managing Director ABB

Our insights

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